The Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh on Saturday honored New York Times tech workers for their substantial and crucial contribution late last year to the Pittsburgh striker fund.
At the 2025 NewsGuild Sector Conference at the Wyndham Grand in Downtown, Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh President Zack Tanner awarded the New York Times Tech Guild with a plaque for its $114,000 donation in December to workers striking against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
The donation was the remainder of what the Times tech workers raised for their own strike in November and came at a time when the Pittsburgh strikers were in need of financial support for their strike, which was then and remains the longest ongoing work stoppage in the country.
“Once they won their strike and took care of their own members, they had a very substantial amount of money left, about $114,000,” Tanner said. “Those Times Tech Guild workers voted together to forward that to our Pittsburgh strike fund, and I’m not exaggerating when I say we would not be standing here on strike if it wasn’t for that donation.”
The award recognized the Times Tech Guild’s “remarkable and unprecedented showing of solidarity as both groups stood and fought for our workplace rights.”
Tanner and Natalie Duleba, local secretary of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh, presented the award to Susan DeCarava, president of the NewsGuild of New York, and Bill Baker, the New York Times Guild unit chair.
The strike against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which began in October 2022 over a variety of unfair labor practices including unilateral changes the newspaper made to worker health insurance, is the longest strike in NewsGuild history, reaching the 1,000-day mark last month.
Money contributed to the striker fund goes directly to the needs of Post-Gazette striking workers, covering items such as rent, utility bills, car payments and more.
The NewsGuild Sector Conference is part of the 2025 Communications Workers of America Convention, which will bring hundreds of workers, union staffers and activists to the city over the weekend and early next week.
Andrew writes about education and more for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, but he's currently on strike. Email him at agoldstein@unionprogress.com.